beg to be excused

Example Sentences

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Ages seemed to have passed before she was able to rise slowly, to smile, to beg to be excused a moment.

From The Heart of Thunder Mountain by Fischer, Anton Otto

We beg to be excused from coming to-night.

From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay

"I must beg to be excused," Floyd says, after smoking a cigar with the gentlemen.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

Nevertheless, I beg to be excused from attendance, as I am convinced that this time of international excitement and prejudice is unfit for the crystallization of new forms for the common life of the nations.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various

Of my personal experience in this particular I beg to be excused from writing.

From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Bronson, Edgar Beecher